Improvement in hoof-cleaners



C. BLAKES'LEE know-CLEAN ER.

No.176',768. Y Patented may 2, 187e.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BLAKESLEE, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPRCVEMENT IN' HOOF-CLEANERS.4

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176.768, dated May 2, 1876; application filed December 9, 1873.

'lhe accompanying drawing is a perspective view of an implelnent for cleaning horses feet, which embodies my invention. A designates a block, which mar be made ot' any suitable design, and B designates the hooked extension thereof. The part B is a Hat thin blade tapering toward its end. To the parts A B there is attached, in any proper manner, the handle C, which may be either metal or Wood, the one in the drawing being 4 ot iron, and cast in one and the same piece with the parts A B.

In use the handle is grasped and the hooked blade B is run around under the shoe or other crevice in the feet to clean them out or loosen dirt, stones, or ice that may be collected therein, after which the implement is turned over, so that the handle makes one-halt of a revolution, and the face of the block A then presents itself in convenient position for use to rap the shoe or hootl andjar ott' the dirt, &c. What 1 claim as my invention is- The implement for cleaning horses feet, herein described, consisting ofthe hooked blade B, extending from the block A, and both arranged upon the same end of a common handle, all

-substantially as described.

CHARLES BLAKESLEE.

\ Witnesses:

O. S. JUDD, p JAMES SHEPARD. 

